I like the grass roots people the most.

I've always tried to keep in mind that I'm in grass-roots country and I'm grass-roots-born and -reared. I don't use the so-called 'sophisticated approach'…

— Jack Brickhouse

I was about 13 or 14 when I heard Malcolm X's speech 'Message to the Grass Roots.'

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Some people love 'Roots;' some people hate 'Roots.' Some people only like the old stuff. Some people want me to play like I did…

— Max Cavalera

He sprang from the grass roots of the country clubs of America.

— Alice Roosevelt Longworth

When kids can't afford to see it anymore maybe we'll have a whole resurgence of garage bands all over America and this New Wave…

— Lester Bangs

At the roots, people are still people. That's why Shakespeare is so popular no matter what the language.

— Vint Cerf

“I have always admired people with strong roots, people who know where their home is and feel at one with themselves there, but that…

— Yangzom Brauen

God wants us to live like the grass. Even if it's stepped on, crushed, burned and cut; it always persists and grows back even…

— Nishan Panwar

But still, the other voice, the intuitive, returns, like grass forcing its way through concrete.

— Susan Griffin

I like the strings. I always have. Because that's how it feels. But the strings make pain seem more fatal than it is, I…

— John Green

Doing the good deeds is like the grass in the garden. You don't see its growth. But, it does by days. Doing the wicked…

— Gautama Buddha

I love tennis, but I just don't like grass.

— Marat Safin

It is of the nature of idea to be communicated: written, spoken, done. The idea is like grass. It craves light, likes crowds, thrives…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Grass-roots clubs and organisations were the places growing up where I found solace. It's important that young people have that space and time to…

— Vick Hope

I want to work on reaching out to people, through my music, at the grass-roots level.

— Ananya Birla